What if God was to leave the land? Centered on this premise, Vinod Venkapalli’s powerful images capture pain, torture, and decay. On the surface they are primal and confrontational, but beneath the suffering lies a message of solidarity in humanity’s shared struggles.

Every Sunday, a nondescript road in Frankfurt’s industrial area is transformed by a variety of vibrant faith communities who visit the churches and cultural organizations that pop up there each week.

What does it mean to really ‘know’ a place? In her visual ode to her hometown of Baldernock just north of Glasgow, Camille Lemoine cultivates a slow and detailed approach to looking at the landscape she grew up in through photography.

Blending photography’s connection to truth, literature’s approach to fiction and the atmosphere of cinema, Rosie Brock spins a fragmentary tale of redemption and disillusionment in the American South.

LensCulture presents the winning work of seven photographers from the New Visions Awards at the Leica Gallery in New York City.

For over a decade, Los-Angeles-based photographer Daniel Postaer has been exploring China, where his mother was born. Amidst a landscape in transition, he has discovered a side of himself too.

Tracing the epic journey of migration undertaken by the Painted Lady butterfly every year—the longest ever discovered—Lucas Foglia explores connections across borders and the challenges we share with other species in the face of the climate crisis.

Named after a term to describe Vietnamese people outside of Vietnam, “Việt Kiều” is this Sydney-born artist’s growing archive of portraits capturing Vietnamese life across the world.

Candid photographs of people taking short breaks far from the chaos of the bustling urban activity in Taipei’s Wanhua District.

Travelling across the US by car, Morganne Boulden captures a lingering tension that hums through the county, her images reflecting how she feels about the current state it is in.

In his documentation of the Indian island of Majuli, where the climate catastrophe shapes the daily lives of everyone living there, András Zoltai shifts from a destruction-led narrative to one of human perseverance that focuses on our intimate relationship with water.

This new photobook blends documentary style with magic realism, challenging perceptions of Colombia often tied to drug trafficking, and revealing complex narratives beneath surface appearances.

By presenting these subjects in black and white, this series of portraits seeks to reveal the quieter side of these performers stripped of their colorful costumes and over-the-top personas.

In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas of life.

Over eight years, Koseki has documented the luminous fireflies of Japan, translating their twinkling flight paths into awe-inspiring photographs, and sounding the alarm about the danger to these creatures caused by human intervention and the climate crisis.

In her striking collection of portraits, Constance Jaeggi explores Escaramuza—a female-led equestrian performance—and its significance in Mexican-American identity, cementing its place in the monolithic history of the American West.

In this 9-minute video interview, photographer Jeff Cowen talks about making an all-new body of work in the south of France — about 60 of the images are being shown at two venues in Amsterdam right now.

With a thoughtful gaze born from a deep concern for his surroundings, Adra Pallón explores the devastating consequences of rural depopulation on the culture of Galicia, its environment and the last of its aging inhabitants.

As an only child born under China’s one-child policy, Zihan Wei uses a snapshot aesthetic to explore photography as a language of intimacy and connection to forge a new relationship with her parents.

Finding peace and refuge in creativity, Jiatong Lu uses photography to heal from childhood trauma reconnecting with herself and others around her in the process.